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Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition, he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical knowledge in short periods of time.

Jan-21-2014 Update. The video transcripts are now available via the following links:

English Only:http://www.the-third-ear.com/files/TEDx-ChrisLonsdale-LearnAnyLanguage6Months.pdf

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Be fun to agree to meet with someone on a regular basis and each of you can't speak the others language, and you have to figure it out along the way. And you're not allowed to learn outside of meeting that person

Maybe it’s possible when you’re doing nothing else but learning a languageMost people just don’t have time studying daily, however, reading books and learning new words every day can improve your language really fast

The “language deaf” thing is so true! When I first moved to the states I had a hard time understanding my English speaking friends in noisy environments, probably because my Dutch ears were deaf to English sounds.

One of the things we are naturally "deaf" to in another language is the rhythm and word breaks. We write sentences with spaces between the words, but we don't speak them that way. Whatwereallydoisspeakalotmorelikethisandstringthesoundstogether. That's why speaking slowly and distinctly is so important when talking to a learner.You had to learn the rhythm to distinguish the words. Background noise increases the difficulty.

From a short experience, the easiest way is to be in the place where THAT LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN. As I live with the people in that place and listen to them talk while at the same time I struggle to talk in their LANGUAGE to communicate with them, I learned anyway.

I feel like he glossed over one important detail which is the fact that you should also have an interest in the language, not just making it relevant. If you don't find any enjoyment out of things like listening to the target language's music or tv shows, you wont have much that takes you to the next level.

@L'effet balle de neige For sure :) I actually feel like I have a really good process for learning a new language now. I just haven't applied it or tested it... so I guess you can say I don't have a good process, haha.

I am a native english speaker, and have learned Spanish through four years of school, and Chinese from one year living in China. Two completely different methods of learning a language, and I nearly came up with this same process in this video. You need to think about words from the other culture's perspective, not your own meaning/translation, you need to master the accent to be expressive and show emotion, and you need to learn the most basic phrases to communicate. This is what I did to learn Chinese and I was very, very good at it within a year. I also had students teach me Chinese every week and did exactly what he said. We talked about the words I wanted to learn, the sentences I created, and I mixed up the words I knew to create more sentences and phrases and words. When you learn this way, you can even stop practicing the language for a while, and when you start practicing again, you will remember almost everything.